Report: Leaking Asbestos Threatens Lake Michigan

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - MIDWEST

July 25, 1999

CHICAGO - Asbestos is leaking into the ground water beneath a dump site next to Illinois Beach State Park and heading toward Lake Michigan, a newspaper reported. The $18 million Johns Manville Superfund dump site near the north edge of Waukegan, Ill., contains 3.7 million cubic yards of asbestos waste that is seeping into nearby ground water because the dump lacks a liner to confine the contaminants, the Chicago Sun-Times reports today. State and federal officials said the cancer-causing sub- stance's migration in the ground water was detected at a test well near the lakefront.